Addictomatic: The missing link in web evolution

Looking at my blog stats over the past few weeks, I’ve noticed the odd referral here and there from Netvibes.

Netvibes, and other web aggregators like iGoogle, are supposed to be the future of the web – pulling all the content you could possibly desire together on the one page, via the many widgets (or modules) provided.

But in my humble opinion, web aggregators like this are still fairly labour intensive to set up, and in any case require both a certain knowledge of what’s already out there, and sufficient confidence to develop your own personalised area.

In the wider scheme of web use, I would imagine this form of web aggregation is still very much in the ‘early adaptors’ stages, and I would question whether its even conceivable that the vast majority of web users could easily make the leap of faith from basic web search to setting up their own personal web aggregate.

So it’s with this leap of faith in mind that I wanted to mention a source passed on to me a couple of weeks ago.It’s a low-maintenance, but highly utilitarian alternative to completely aggregated web content – Addictomatic.